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PSEUDOWINTERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pseudowintera mean? 

PSEUDOWINTERA (noun)
  The noun PSEUDOWINTERA has 1 sense:

1. evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealandplay

  Familiarity information: PSEUDOWINTERA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PSEUDOWINTERA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pseudowintera; genus Wintera; Pseudowintera; Wintera

Hypernyms ("Pseudowintera" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Pseudowintera"):

pepper shrub; Pseudowintera colorata; Wintera colorata (evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits)

Holonyms ("Pseudowintera" is a member of...):

family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)


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